Rwanda's Ghosts Refuse to Be Buried

Click this link to read the article then follow the directions below. Please be sure to read and answer all parts of the question. Good luck!

READ THE DIRECTIONS:

• READ THE ARTICLE

• ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER, AS YOU READ, WRITE DOWN ANY WORDS YOU DON’T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND

• AFTER THIS, ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON THE SAME SHEET OF PAPER

1. Who are the ghosts of Rwanda?

2. What are 3 specific examples of the “ghosts of Rwanda”?

3. What people outside of Rwanda should feel, or do feel, guilt about the genocide?

4. What is a specific example of a country/group of people outside of Rwanda that should/do feel guilt, and why should/do they

feel guilty?

5. From what you read in the article, who do you think controls Rwanda now, the Tutsi’s or the Hutu’s? What specifically in the

article makes you think this way?

6. Imagine you live in Rwanda at the time of the genocide. You are a Hutu, while your best friend is a Tutsi. The Interhamwe

approaches you and tells you to either kill your Tutsi friend or be killed. How do you respond? What do you do?